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adjective
Pin-fire  adj.  (Mil.) Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge; as, a pin-fire rifle.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pin-fire" Quotes from Famous Books



... the recusant bearing signs of prosperity in the flowered print about his loins, the ancient cartridge pouch slung around his waist and a huge revolver of the pin-fire model dangling from a neck which appeared more tortoise-like than ever. Before Zalu Zako he squatted and after they had exchanged the usual hostages to hostility, Sakamata inquired most politely after the health of the Son-of-the-Snake, of his cattle ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle



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